[TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable

[Jerry Frost]

The commercials were enough I've never watched an episode, too much cooked 
drama, tantrums, etc. etc.

On a similar note, this morning I caught something on NatGeo called. "Jesse 
James Blacksmith." The first hour or so was Jesse taking lessons from Uri 
Hofi at the kibutz. Makes me think I may have missed something interesting 
having missed every episode of West Coast Choppers. <sigh>

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CraigSchaefer" <calvinjean2 at comcast.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable


> The folks from Orange County Choppers. Relevant about 7 years ago. Now, 
> not so much.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 1:50:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable
>
> Miss who?
>
> In my more adventurous youth a couple friends and I . . . Oh, that's right 
> I
> don't talk about the oxy acet, the 10' weather ballon and the two 10'
> methane ballon lift units nor how many blocks away wondows broke . . . 
> Nope,
> I never mention such things, not me.
>
> Jer
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "CraigSchaefer" <calvinjean2 at comcast.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Why an acetylene leak is not desirable
>
>
>>
>>
>> "TW, i just saw a commercial for for an upcoming Orange Count Choppers
>> episode where they filled a 55 gallon garbage bag with oxygen and
>> acetylene... if a static spark had set off that mix, the series would
>> have ended right then and there..."
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this one of those 'tree falls in the woods' things? Would anybody miss
>> them?
>>
>>
>>
>> When a bunch of us were greater miscreants than we are now, we used to
>> fill plastic milk jugs with oxy/acet and set them off with a rifle. They
>> made a pretty good blast at that small size.